Ceramic Heads made from flax clay, bisqued and fired then painted with poster paint....some are definite characters while others evolved into occasionally strangecharacters
Friday, 3 May 2013
Landscape painting on canvas using tempera and acrylic with palette knife
A rare sighting of the giant red bunny of the Highlands!
Last day of term started by eating Easter 'Nests' made from shredded wheat and chocolate. Always a popular choice! The challenge was to figure out how to combine wire, and glass globs, and beads to make an insect like critter. It involved using hard, slippery materials so some children found it a struggle. The glue gun was always handy to stop the wire spiralling out of control. In the end their efforts were not too bad.
Photos taken with a model of Able Seaman Simon, a famous ships' cat who was injured by shrapnel during the Yangtse Incident in 1949, He was awarded the Dickin medal posthumously for cheering up the hospitalised crew who were badly injured during the attack. Portraits were made by tracing with carbon paper, that old standby. I had to explain the original use of carbon in the context of typewriters which are yet another alien concept for today's child.The pictures were painted in watercolour and mounted onto cardboard which had been decorated with straws and painted.
The project began with a discussion about the seaons of the year, weather conditions associated with the seasons, and warm:hot, cool:cold colours. Each club member made 4 large abstract paintings to represent each season, then using a frame cut out 3 relevant compositions from the main painting to represent each month. These were mounted in the printed calendars which I had made. It took a lot of careful work and everyone approached the project thoughtfully and produced many unique interesting images. They were all very pleased with the end results.
